Hello and welcome to Queer's Facts, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world

and throughout time. I'm Alice. I'm Irene. I'm Eli. And today we're talking about the drag

queen and activist, Marsha P. Johnson.

We have some content warnings before we start this episode.

We will be discussing transphobia, homophobia and transphobic and homophobic violence, including murder.

There'll also be the use of outdated language and slurs in quotes when talking about trans and gender non-conforming people,

as well as misgendering in quotes and swearing in quotes.

We'll also be discussing police harassment and violence, imprisonment and abuse in prison of queer

people and there will be mentions of knife and gun violence.

We'll also be talking about sex work including minors engaging in sex work as well as sexual harassment and assault.

There were mentions of HIV, AIDS and AIDS related illness and death. We'll also be talking about

homelessness, drug use, abuse and overdose, suicide, mental illness, including forced

hospitalisation and medication, and drowning. If any of that's something that you don't want to

listen to, feel free to skip this episode and check out any of our other content. So I want to talk a bit more in-depth than usual

about sources before we get into the episode proper. I feel like this is a thing that we say every

week. So we're very lucky in that there are a lot of interviews out there with Marsha herself,

which we have on video. And books about Stonewall also provide generally at least a short biography of her,

sometimes based off further interviews that authors have done.

There is no published biography that's just a book about Marsha.

That's so weird.

That is incredibly weird to me.

Is someone working on one?

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